Facilities
Our creative spaces give you the freedom to design, make, test, and bring your ideas to life. We'll teach you strong traditional and digital skills, using proven techniques and modern ways of creating.
The David Puttnam Media Centre is home to our BA (Hons) Animation and Games Art course.
As an animation student, you'll use facilities which include:
- Personal studio space
- Oculus headsets for VR work motion capture suite
- Rokoko motion capture system
- Virtual Production studio
- Green screen TV studio
- Design suite with the latest Windows-based hardware, RTX GPUs, and Wacom Cintiqs
- Industry-standard sound recording studios and editing facilities.
Software includes:
- Toon Boom Harmony Premium
- Autodesk Maya
- Substance Painter
- Unreal Engine
- Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects, Illustrator and Photoshop
- Pixologic ZBrush
- Blender
- Unity.
You’ll work with expert technical staff, including Adobe and Maya Certified instructors, who'll help you get the most out of your work.
As a Graphic Design or Illustration student, you’ll have access to spacious studios and well-equipped workshops.
Facilities include:
- Digital design suites equipped with Apple Macs, PCs, and Wacom Cintiqs
- HTC VIVE VR
Our extensive pre-production, process and finishing equipment includes:
- 3D design and printing
- Bookbinding
- Vinyl
- Large format printing
- Animation and VR
- Laser-cutting
- Wood and metal workshops
Software includes:
- ZBrush
- Unity 3D
- Maya
- Blender
- Cinema 4D
- Dreamweaver
- Adobe Creative Suites
Our specialist technical staff include qualified Adobe and Maya Certified Instructors. They'll be on hand to offer back-up and help in making the most of the software.
Along with our software specialists, we have a team of experienced technicians. They are specialists in their fields who are on hand to support you to realise your vision
Our fashion and textiles facilities include:
- Open access Apple Macs and Wacom Cintiqs
- Industrial sewing machines
- Digital embroidery facilities
- Laser cutter
- Print studio
- Large scale digital fabric printer.
Software includes:
- Virtual, true-to life 3D garment visualisation CLO software
- State-of-the-art digital 3D visualisation CAD software
As a Fine Art student, you’ll benefit from your own large studio space in the Priestman Building.
We’ll support you to try new materials, work on a larger scale, and explore digital, sculptural, and performance art as you develop your practice.
Materials are central to your work, so you’ll have space to test your ideas and try new ways of working in our materials lab and drawing Lab. You’ll also develop your professional skills by exhibiting your work in the Priestman Gallery.
You'll have access to our Printmaking studio with professional, traditional printmaking facilities for:
- Letterpress
- Intaglio
- Relief
- Screen printing.
Other facilities include:
- Riso lab for printing and zine publishing
- 3D sculpture workshop with facilities for metal welding and fabrication
- Wood workshop for stretcher making, mould making and casting;
- Extensive tools for traditional hand machining
- Digital tools such as ShopBot, CNC, and laser cutting
- Photo studio
- Sound recording equipment
Software includes:
- Computer-aided design (CAD) embroidery
- Adobe creative suite
By studying BA (Hons) Photography, Video and Digital Imaging or MA Visual Practice, you’ll have access to well-equipped photographic and studio facilities at the Northern Centre of Photography (NCP):
Facilities and equipment include:
- Pixel lab with iMacs, Epson flatbed film and print scanners and a large 4k LED display screen.
- Two large photography studios
- Bowens digital flash lighting and a wide range of attachments
- 100mp Phase One XF medium format digital cameras
- iMac Pros
- Black and white darkroom and film processing hub
- Colour space printing facility
- Social zone/makerspace
- NCP gallery with magnetic gallery walls to present your work
- Creative space with magnetic walls and large 4k LED screen.
You will have access to software including Adobe Creative Cloud Pro.
